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Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Essential Gluten-Free Baking Guides Giveaway: Final Day To Enter!

Lemon Squares: From the Sweet White Rice Flour chapter of book 2

Today is the big day! My brand new cookbooks, The Essential Gluten-Free Baking Guides, are officially available and will begin shipping out today. My co-author, Brittany Angell, and I spent nine months learning everything we could about gluten-free baking so that we could save you time and money in the kitchen. With these books as your guide, you will no longer have to wonder which flours can be exchanged for each other, how to adapt recipes to be vegan, or how to work without xanthan gum. All these answers and more can be found in our guides, along with over 100 recipes between the two books.

Our guides go into extensive detail about various types of unrefined sugars, and how we use them in our baking. Wholesome Sweeteners Agave Nectar and Sucanat were both products that we recommended to our readers, and we know you'll enjoy this gift basket they will be sending to one of you!

Brittany learned about Nuts.com when she first began getting into grain-free baking. They are an amazing resource for gluten-free flours, and we were lucky enough to be able to test out their flours during our photo shoot. Today they are giving away two gift packs. Brittany will be giving away flours on her blog that correspond to the flours in book 1, and I will be giving away flours from book 2! So that means you can enter here to win a gift package filled with sorghum, buckwheat, teff, rice, and potato flour, PLUS tapioca starch, potato starch, and organic chia energy squares! To win the gift basket for book 1, comment over at Brittany's blog!

Dakota Prairie has a dedicated gluten-free facility that produces finely milled flours. We loved working with their flours in our recipes, and found that their rice flour produced baked goods with a wonderfully light texture. Like with Nuts.com, Dakota Prairie wants to help you get started with baking all of our recipes, so they are giving away two gift packs, one corresponding to each book. You can leave a comment here to win flours from book 2: sorghum, sweet white rice, buckwheat, teff, rice, and potato flour, PLUS potato starch, arrowroot starch, and tapioca starch. Leave a comment at Brittany's blog to win the flours from book 1.

Cassava flour was a new product for Brittany and I. Early on in our baking process, we spoke with Carter Foss from American Key Food Products, and he told us about his amazing new product. After trying a bite of his cassava flour cupcakes at The Gluten- and Allergen-Free Expo in Dallas last year, I knew we had to include this flour in our books. Because we know it will be new for most of you as well, AKFP is sending 5 winners each their own bag of cassava flour so you can try the recipes in the book right away!

One copy of The Essential Gluten-Free Baking Guide Part 2!
I will be signing this copy from the first printing and sending it to one winner! Some of my favorite recipes from this book are: Lemon Squares (Sweet White Rice Flour Chapter)Chocolate Glazed Apricot Brownie Bites (Buckwheat Chapter)Vegan, Yeast-Free Sandwich Bread (Sorghum Flour Chapter)Pizza Roll-Ups and Whole-Grain Dinner Rolls (Teff Flour Chapter)Mini Pizza Pockets (Potato Flour Chapter)

To win a copy of book 1 signed by Brittany Angell, stop by her blog and leave a comment.

How to enter: (This giveaway is now closed)All of these giveaways are open to addresses in the continental U.S. only. There will be eight winners for this giveaway (winners posted on Friday), and five winners for the same giveaway on Brittany's site today as well! You have until midnight today so start getting those entries in! Here are all the ways you can enter. Please leave a separate comment for each entry, and you MUST leave an e-mail address or way for me to contact you.

Leave a comment telling me which gift pack you would like to win.

Visit one of the sponsoring companies and tell me something you like about them (they are truly awesome companies).

oh my gosh!! wait first i want to shout out a great big ~~~~~~~~CONGRATULATIONS ~~~~~~~~ to you on opening day for book sales !It is going to be a wonderful book and i look forward to getting my copy..(recieving as a gift ;)))) hubby loves my cooking ;) I know i will enjoy for years to come and my hubby ,kids and grandkids and friends will enjoy the goodies to come once prepared.;) so thank you both so much and i wish success to your book (i am positive it will be)..every home should get this!Until this past year i did not know a lot about glueten free food and its benifits ,but searching for help with my grandson i discovered it and have studied the benifits of this in my home and meals and it is great.My 6 year old grandson has add and ocd (in our 40's we raise 3 of our grandkids due to a family illness) and i am hopeing for LONG term success with eating better for him and us..hopefully one day he will be off meds completely..thats my hope and prayer...so thanks once more to u both for putting useful resources out there for all of us to be able to have in our homes and quick access on here,,although i have to admit,every time i visit either ,i get HUNGRY!!! and usually wind up trying something besides what i was after lol...THANK YOU!!!ALWAYSATRYIN1 AT GMAIL.COM~~~~~~~~NOW to try and answer your question to enter this fab giveaway AND THANK U TO ALL SPONSORS!! I am sooo torn on this one,, i was not familiar with dakota prairie until today ,but i am impressed.I already know and have used nuts online,they are super!!!also know about american key and cassava flour,so will save that for ones who have not tried this(its good)..and have ur book coming ;) SO ...having to choose ,it is dakota prairie ..both are offering wonderful flours (which i hope hope hope to win ) but i would love to try the arrowroot starch,never even heard of it until now but know benifits of arrowwood..thank u so so much!!! good luck allalwaysatryin1 at gmail.com

since i've about already written a short story on first post about them all,lol, i'll use the arrowroot (keep wanting to say wood for some reason )starch over at Dakota Prairie,,did not know about this until today and would loveto try this at home ..thank u alwaysatryin1 at gmail.com

dont count this one ,,just letting u know,,i have tried over and over in 2 browsers to get an invite to this already and for some reason i never get invites ;((((( so i cant do this one,,just tried again...

So excited for both of you- congrats on the big day! I would be thrilled to win any of your fabulous giveaways but I'm partial to the nuts.com package. I love their products and have been buying from them for a year now.

I am most interested in your book, especially with that beautiful lemon bar picture to tempt me. But I am also interested in the cassava flour. I can't use potato starches or flours, so cassava may prove a useful alternative. Thanks!

I NEED your books!! They look so phenomenal and I feel like I could learn so much more about baking with these flours! Plus the pictures by themselves are incredible which means the recipes must be just as good ;-)

I love nuts.com because of the wide wide selection of gluten free products. Just click the tab and there you are. I also love that they the GF products are certified GF, a big deal for me who is hypersensitive to gluten.

This is now shear torture! Decision making has never been my strong point, but this is getting outrageous. All that said, I'd love a copy of your book, first and foremost.Thank you!Barbaracbnbb@earthlink.net

Most of all, I'd love to win the signed book, but I'd also be thrilled by the Dakota prarie prize. I visited the company's site and the selection looks amazing. I like you on FB. Thank you so much for offering all these great giveaways!

As a newby in the "gluten free living world", I am a bit overwhelmed with all I have to learn about staying healthy. Nuts.com has made this transtion a bit easier for me, as it appears to be a go to source for all of my baking needs. I can't wait to dive in and make my first batch of gluten free chocolate chip cookies!!!

Okay, today's choice is SO difficult. Borders on cruel & unusual how awesome all these prizes are, Iris. Me wants them all! :)

Alas, if I have to choose, it will definitely be the cassava flour. Cassava is very common in Filipino cooking, and I want there to be lots of gluten-free/vegan Filipino desserts in my future & the future of The Canary Files!